Infant Transformers.

“Transforming a helpless infant into a godly adult is a challenging and consuming endeavor. The most unnerving reality is that even when a parent does everything “right” there is no guarantee that the result will be an adult who honors God with all his or her heart, mind, strength, and soul.”

Once again we are greeted with such encouraging words, filled with hope, from chapter 2 in the book Revolutionary Parenting by George Barna.  

Don’t shake your head too much. Here is where the hope comes.

“Our job is not to succeed but to be obedient to God’s calling and principles and allow Him to produce the outcomes according to His perfect will.”

There is LOTS of good news packed in that sentence. Our job is not to be successful, perfect, all knowing parents. Our job is to be obedient parents. And not obedient to Dr. Phil. We are to be obedient to God and His Word.

How does the idea that you asked to be obedient to God’s calling challenge you?

The chapter goes on to say: “As we rely upon Him rather than our own ideas and wisdom, we can be assured that our young ones will experience the best that God has to offer, through us and others.”

That sentence smacked me in the face. Because here is what it says to me:

As I, Carey Bailey, rely upon God then and only then will Renn and Avery experience God fully.

That puts the ball in my court!!!!

The rest of chapter two goes on to encourage you to look at parenting as a form of coaching. You are a coach with various roles and specialties. This analogy works for me because my dad was a coach and I was active in a variety of activities that involved coaching. I can quickly tell you the coaches I liked growing up and the coaches I didn’t like. I remember the coaches that encouraged, pushed, taught me new things, believed in me, and were motivators.

My husband and I plan to sit down and define our coaching roles. I can’t be the coach of everything. But I have strengths that can serve as my primary coaching role for my kids and vice versa.

How would you define your role a parenting coach? 


If you missed Chapter One catch up here.